From darkness to darkness, part 1

Darkness, until 2016 4 weeks until Election Day What is the purpose of rest? Is it to reenergize ourselves for the struggles ahead? Neuroscience suggests that during sleep, our brains reorganize our neural pathways and remove toxins. We process our emotions through dreams and file away memories and learning. Our bodies heal and our muscles…

Seeing the present

The New Friendship Baptist Church in Englewood, from which marchers set off on August 5, 1966. On August 5, 1966, activists from the Chicago Freedom Movement set off from the New Friendship Baptist Church in Englewood to march three miles through the white neighborhoods of Chicago Lawn and Gage Park to protest the housing segregation…